I am looking for an immediately available Senior Test Automation Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team in Central London.
6 month contract
2x days per week on site in London
Role: Senior Test Automation Engineer
Summary A hands-on engineering role that designs, writes and maintains automated test suites full-time, covering UI and end-to-end tests, working alongside a separate test strategy function. This is a coding role: the person writes test code in a real programming language, not manual or record-and-playback scripts.
Key responsibilities
- Run and maintain automated testing full-time.
- Introduce and own an end-to-end and UI test automation framework.
- Write new UI and end-to-end test scenarios for untested areas of the product.
- Design and maintain API-level end-to-end and contract tests.
- Integrate automated test suites into the CI pipeline as required checks.
- Run tests and triage failures on an ongoing basis.
Required skills and experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building automated test suites in code.
- Strong programming ability in TypeScript, able to write and maintain production-quality test code.
- Expert-level experience with Playwright, or an equivalent modern end-to-end testing framework such as Cypress or WebdriverIO.
- Experience designing and writing API-level end-to-end and integration tests against REST APIs.
- Experience integrating automated test suites into a CI pipeline, ideally GitHub Actions.
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira.
- Ability to identify untested scenarios and write new UI and end-to-end test coverage independently.
- Comfortable using AI coding assistants (such as GitHub Copilot) as part of day-to-day work.
- A public GitHub profile, open-source contributions, or personal repositories that demonstrate their work.
Preferred skills and experience
- Experience testing applications built with Angular and React.
- Experience with visual regression testing.
- Experience with monorepo CI tools such as Turborepo.
- Experience working alongside a separate quality strategy or test lead function.
Senior Automation Test Engineer employer: Focus on WD
As a leading player in finance transformation within Greater London, our company is committed to fostering a dynamic work culture that prioritises innovation and collaboration. We offer exceptional employee growth opportunities through continuous training and development, alongside competitive benefits that support work-life balance. Join us to be part of a team that values your expertise and empowers you to make a significant impact on enterprise clients' reporting solutions.
